| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L40090/01 |
| Title: |
THE INTERPHASE CHEMISTRY OF MULTI-COMPONENT POLYMER-TO-METAL ADHESION |
| Principal Investigator: |
Watts, Professor J |
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| Department: |
Materials Science & Engineering |
| Organisation: |
University of Surrey |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 December 1996 |
Ends: |
30 November 1998 |
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140,370
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| Materials Characterisation |
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Fully formulated coatings and adhesives contain many components added for a plethora of reasons; the segregation of these components to the polymer-to-metal interface may have a deleterious effect on adhesive properties. The aim of this proposal is to develop the underpinning theory necessary to predict those components in commercial formulation which play an important role in adhesion phenomena. We shall study technologically relevant substrates such as steel, aluminium and HDGS with conversion coatings. XPS and ToF-SIMS will be used to determine the adsorption characteristics of the individual components (by the construction of adsorption isotherms), and the exact nature of interfacial bonding (by the analysis of small C1s chemical shifts in a very high resolution XPS). The nub of this proposal is to relate the behaviour of the individual components to the performance of the fully formulated systems. In this manner it will be possible to develop a more purposeful approach to the formulation of such systems. This is particularly timely with the advent of new metal pretreatments that remove Cr, P, Ni ions from the production line, as there is no history of experience for the formulation of coatings and adhesives for use with such pretreatments.
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